Just for Fun - Match Camera with Iconic Photo

[Bille]

Rokkor 16/2.8.
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Fisheye really?

 

[jonmanjiro]

Tomoko Uemura in her Bath by Eugene Smith, 1971 or 1972, Minolta SRT-101, Rokkor 16/2.8.

Interesting info about this particular photograph, as well as a few more from the Minamata series: http://www.oocities.org/minoltaphotographyw/

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Interesting you posted that one, Alkis! Last October at a bar in Tokyo, I found myself sitting next to a chap called Takeshi Ishikawa. He worked as Eugene Smith's assistant on his multiple trips to Minamata. Ishikawa-san is a well regarded photographer in his own right in Japan. Was fascinating hearing some of his stories.

And another one from me...

Migrant mother with kids by Dorothea Lange in 1936
Graflex RB Series D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/lange.shtml

 

[telenous]

Fisheye really?

I don't know for sure, it's just the lens most often mentioned alongside the photograph. Indoor spaces in Japan are cramped (let alone a bath), so some kind of wide angle must have been used. Somehow, the photograph of Tomoko doesn't exhibit the extreme distortion of a fisheye, as one would expect. (Compare the *big* distortion of the next photograph with the fishermen, in the link I gave.) Perhaps, the distortion is obscured by the darkness around Tomoko and her mother and [speculating] some mild crop?

Interesting you posted that one, Alkis! Last October at a bar in Tokyo, I found myself sitting next to a chap called Takeshi Ishikawa. He worked as Eugene Smith's assistant on his multiple trips to Minamata. Ishikawa-san is a well regarded photographer in his own right in Japan. Was fascinating hearing some of his stories.

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Amazing when these things happen. You'll have to share some of the stories next time we meet Jon. I'll buy the beer.😉

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[Brian Atherton]

Winston Churchill, Ottawa 1941. 8x10 inch Calumet camera.

http://www.beetlesandhuxley.com/gallery/portraits/winston-churchill-1941.html

 

[Addy101]

Raising a flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeni Khaldei (1917-1997), Leica III

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22252/lot/723/

 

[semi-ambivalent]

3. My. Everest Summit by Sir Edmund Hillary/Kodak Retina 118

No picture of Hillary was made on the Summit. Instead, his climbing partner was photographed by Hillary using the Retina and Kodachrome.

"Tenzing didn't know how to use a camera and the summit of Everest wasn't the place to teach him."
-Sir Edmund Hillary
🙂
s-a

 

[oftheherd]

Winston Churchill, Ottawa 1941. 8x10 inch Calumet camera.

http://www.beetlesandhuxley.com/gallery/portraits/winston-churchill-1941.html

I have heard that the look on Churchill's face was obtained by Karsh snatching a cigar from Churchill and then quickly returning to his camera and taking the photo.

 

[Brian Atherton]

I have heard that the look on Churchill's face was obtained by Karsh snatching a cigar from Churchill and then quickly returning to his camera and taking the photo.

Indeed...

https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/winston-churchill-by-yousef-karsh/

 

[johannielscom]

Napalm girl, Nick Ut, June 1972
Leica M2 and Summicron 35mm

http://www.apimages.com/Collection/...Napalm-Girl-/ebfc0a860aa946ba9e77eb786d46207e

This is the uncropped image, though.

http://www.readingthepictures.org/files/2013/09/Nick-Ut-Uncropped-Version-Napalm-Girl.jpg

 

[telenous]

Fallen Worker & Resting Worker by Sebastiao Salgado, 1991, Leica R6, Macro Elmarit-R 60/2.8, probably with Kodak TriX.

http://www.artnet.com/artists/sebas...rhan-oil-field-fallen-wQk0q0pOowZOpQoBTDOjOA2

https://gr.pinterest.com/pin/142848619401103715/

I 've read that Salgado had with him the usual trio of R6s with 28/35/60 lenses. The Kuwaiti oil field fire was hell on earth, and the blazing heat got so intense that the 28mm lens warped and didn't work anymore. That left Salgado with only the 35 and the 60 lenses to work with, and, apparently (see link below) the majority of the photos were taken with the R6 and the Macro Elmarit-R 60.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/1424765_leica-r6-salgado

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